In another tweet, Mr. Pompeo reposted a chart of those arrested in Iran over the past year, according to which the number of detainees has increased several times from January 2016 to January 2017.
The US Secretary of State also wrote in another tweet, referring to the wave of arrests in Iran, including 5,000 people during nationwide protests last January, 30 women during protests against the mandatory hijab, hundreds of dervishes, dozens of environmental activists, 400 people in Ahvaz, and 30 farmers in Isfahan: "All of these have been imprisoned by the criminal Iranian regime. The Iranian people have the right to be respected for their human rights."
The nationwide protests in Iran last January left at least 25 people dead, hundreds injured, and about 5,000 people arrested.
The issuance of heavy sentences to those arrested during those protests has also been accompanied by protests in recent weeks, including a number of students who were arrested in January who are now reporting that they have been issued heavy prison sentences.
In another tweet, Mr. Pompeo posted an image and wrote: "Nearly 30% of Iranian youth are unemployed."
The US Secretary of State also wrote: "Iran's corrupt regime has worked to enrich the Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and while Iranian families are struggling, it has plundered the country's national wealth for proxy wars outside of Iran."
Islamic Republic officials have not yet responded to the US Secretary of State's new statements, but they have previously denied similar accusations.
The US Secretary of State's tweets came a day after an article by Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in his memo, which he wrote in response to Mike Pompeo's twelve demands, listed Tehran's demands from Washington.
On the other hand, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, has repeatedly referred to the economic problems in Iran, but has called the solution to these problems a "resistance economy," which is not clear what he means.
A few days ago, he also called on the parliament to set aside the bill to join international conventions, including those on combating money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, and "independently legislate on these matters."
Ayatollah Khamenei has also emphasized that in negotiations with European countries about the fate of the JCPOA, Europe "must guarantee" that it will not address the two issues of Iran's missile programs and actions in the region.
